Necktie-smoothing device



s. w. McCARTE. NECKTIE SMOOTHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION F|L ED JAN. 29, 1919- Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

m m L p//A////n//A/////n WITNESSES SAMUEL W. MGCAB'I'E, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

NECKTIE-SMOOTHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1920.

Application filed January 29, 1919. Serial No. 273,736.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. MGCARTE, a resident of Pittsburgh, inthe count of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, ave invented a new and useful Improvement in Necktie-Smoothing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for smoothing, that is, taking out the wrinkles and creases in neckties of the four-in-hand kind. The object is to provide a device for this purpose which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, convenient and easy to use, and which will effectually remove creases and wrinkles from ties of the character specified.

Four-in-hand ties are of general tubular formation and in their use become badly wrinkled and creased at rather definite portions near each end. The device forming the subject of this invention is designed for insertion'into the ends of the tubular tie, to the portions of creasing or wrinkling, and acts to stretch the same flatwise and thus remove the wrinkles and creases.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the preferred form of the device; and Fig. 2 is an edge or side view of the same.

The device illustrated comprises two substantially similar forms of difierent sizes, to-wit, the larger form A for insertion in the larger end of the tie and the smaller form B for insertion in the smaller end of the tie. Each of these forms is of substantial oblong shape, narrower at one end than at the other, and having side portions 1 and 1 which are substantially straight but bowed outwardly slightly between their ends. The ends of these side portions are united by curved resilient end portions, that at the narrower end of the larger form be ing designated 2 and of the smaller form 2 and that at the larger end of the large form being designated 3 and of the smaller form 3 The shape of these curved or end portions may vary, the drawings showing the end portions 2 and 2 as of regular outwardly curved or bow contour so as to more easily enter the tie, while the end portions 3 and 3 are curved reflexly inwardly so as to be adaptable to variations in widths of ties,

Preferably, the side portions 1 and 1 will also be formed of resil ent material; r

order to provide perfectly smooth forms which have no projecting portions to catch on the fabric, each form is preferably made from a continuous piece of resilient wire bent to the desired shape, and this is the way the device is illustrated These two forms can be entirely separate or united in any suitable way/ As shown they are permanently united by means of a handle portion 4': of loop shape, which is formed by merely twisting together two strands of the wire from which the device is constructed, this handle portion being of sufiicient length to accommodate the ends of the tie. In the specific form illustrated, the entire device is made from a single continuous piece of wire bent to the shape of the two forms A and B, and continued into.

the handle portion, the free ends of the two wires meeting at any desired point in the handle portion.

The curved or bowed end portions of the two forms permit the side portions to move inwardly and outwardly in substantially parallel planes, so as to exert an outward stretching action on the tubular tie for the entire distance the tie is engaged by the,

sides of the form. The resiliency of the side portions also carries a stretching action and permits the forms to adapt themselves to the shape of the tie. The dotted lines on Fig. 1 indicate the manner in which the form A will yield under the action of the tie.

"It will be understood that these forms will be slightly wider than the tie so that when forced into the tie they exert a stretch ing action thereon.

-'Ihe outwcrdly bowed free ends of these forms and their tapering shape enable them to be readily entered into the tie and the smooth outlines of the forms enable them to be entered into the ti e and withdrawn therefrom without catching on or pulling the fabric.

In the use of the device, the tie may be slightly moistened or not as is desired, but in either event the forms are inserted endwise into the free ends of the tie until they come into the proper position within the creased or wrinkled portions, and are left therein for a suitable period of time to re. move these wrinkles or creases.

The device illustrated can be made by antenata Wire di g ma hin y and therefore produced at a low cost. It is very scope of the invention as described. in the claims now following:

I claim:

l. A device of the character specified, comprising two substantially similar forms, one longer and wider than the other, and each being of substantially oblong shape, narrower at one end than at the other, and each having the narrower end curved outwardly and the wider end curved reflexly inwardly, the whole being formed of a continuous piece of resilient wire extended into a twisted loop shaped connecting portion at the wider ends of said forms, whereby the forms are held in general planes parallel to each other.

2. A necktie stretcher, comprising two substantially similar forms lying in general planes parallel to each other, one form being longer and wider than the other, and each having its narrower end bowed outwardly and its wider end reflexly curved inwardly to provide for substantially parallel movements of the sides, the whole structure being fornjled of a continuous piece of resilient wire ext nded into a fixed'loopi-shaped portion connecting the Wider ends of the forms.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

SAMUEL w. MOOARTE.

Witness V Anion A. TRILL. 

